Burial set for Korean War soldier

A Tioga soldier missing in action in
North Korea since late 1950s is scheduled to be buried in Dallas on Wednesday.

Army Pfc. Weldon A. Davis was part of
the 25th Infantry Division that was engaged in fighting with units of the
Chinese army north of the Ch’ongch’on River.

That division suffered many casualties
and the Chinese captured many others, according to the Department of Defense
Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office.

In 1953, soldiers said that Davis had
been taken to a prisoner of war camp known as Death Valley and that he died
from malnutrition and pneumonia.

In 2005, a joint U.S. and Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea team excavated a burial ground in North Korea, and
the remains that were found were returned to the U.S. Davis’ remains were among
those identified.

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